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The 1.5V AA Xcell Alkaline batteries don’t seem as something special, but we’ve decided to give them a try and see how good will they be able to perform in our tests. The batteries we’ve used for testing were with an expiration date of just the year 2017, no specific month, so they should be with either 4 or 5 years of shelf life.

Starting our test of the 1.5V AA Xcell Alkaline batteries as we usually do with a low constant current discharge rate of 0.1A we have managed to get 2063 mAh as capacity. With that capacity they do not manage to get into our top 10 of best AA-size Alkaline batteries, though the level of capacity they offer is still more than decent if the price is right. Increasing the level of constant current load that we are testing with to 0.2A we still get a decent useable capacity, but past that the performance gets even worse, so better not use these batteries for higher power drain applications.

The 1.5V AAA Xcell Alkaline batteries are nothing special at first look and are not a popular or well known brand, so we took them for a spin to see how good they will perform in our tests, The particular batteries we are testing here were all marked with an expiration of 2017, no particular month mentioned so we can assume they have a shelf life of 4 years.

Starting our test of the 1.5V AAA Xcell Alkaline batteries as usual with a low constant current discharge rate of 0.1A we have managed to get 893 mAh as capacity – a decent achievement, though a bit far from the highest result we’ve seen. Increasing the load to 0.2A, 0.3A and even at 0.5A the useable capacity we’ve got was still very decent. The interesting thing here is that the difference between the shown useable capacity at the higher test loads was with smaller gaps, indicating that these batteries are designed to handle well higher current loads. The Xcell Alkaline batteries seem to perform well, but are nothing special in terms of performance…

The performance of the 1.5V AAA Xcell Alkaline batteries in our tests: